Description

School of Computing

Schedule and Deliverables

Notes and Advice

●        The Extenuating Circumstances procedure is there to support you if you have had any circumstances (problems) that have been serious or significant enough to prevent you from attending, completing or submitting an assessment on time.

●        ASDAC are available to any students who disclose a disability or require additional support for their academic studies with a good set of resources on the ASDAC moodle site

●        The University takes plagiarism seriously. Please ensure you adhere to the plagiarism guidelines.

●        Any material included in your coursework should be fully cited and referenced in APA format (sixth edition). Detailed advice on referencing is available from http://referencing.port.ac.uk/

●        Any material submitted that does not meet format or submission guidelines or falls outside of the submission deadline could be subject to a cap on your overall result or disqualification entirely.

●        If you need additional assistance, you can ask your personal tutor, learning support ana.baker@port.ac.uk and xia.han@port.ac.uk or your lecturers.

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Submission date:  Tuesday 18th March 2020 22:30 UK time

Submission instructions

There will be a MISECDL Portfolio 1 dropbox in the Assessments section of the MISECDL Moodle Module.
You must use the designated Front-sheet as the first page of your coursework

General instructions

Read the Tasks carefully and ask if you are unsure of what you are expected to deliver.

Questions  - will be answered via a discussion thread in the Coursework Questions

Forum  in Moodle.

Correct UK English grammar and spelling is expected in business writing. Serious failings in English usage will result in lower marks. Good communication skills are inherent in the unit learning outcomes.

This assessment comprises 50% of your mark for this unit.

Anonymity of work

All work must be submitted anonymously. You should therefore ensure that you do not include your name anywhere on your work, either in the main body of your report, the appendix, or in any headers or footers. Use your Student ID number only.

Coursework Tasks:

ALL tasks must be answered. Total word count: 2000 ± 10%

Task 1 is based on the Lufthansa case study in Section One on Moodle.

Tasks 2 and 3 MUST be related to your Website Client for WebMDDL (see Note 1)

Tasks 4 - 6 may be answered in relation to another company known to you - See Note 2 for details

Note 1

You have chosen a company / sole trader / club to build a website for your WebMDDL module. Please use that website client (company / sole trader / club ) as a basis for your answer.

Link to portfolio WebMD DL “find yourself a client. There are many small businesses/organisations out there who won't say 'no' to a free website. Do you know a band who would appreciate a site? A charity shop? Family restaurant? Church? Local society or group? etc ….... “

Note 2

If your website client is a single person, you may find it difficult to answer this task for them. If this is the case, you may choose another (smallish) company or department of a company that you are familiar with - maybe one that you work for or another company that you have dealt with.
If you wish to do this your MUST inform Kathy (kathy.parker@port.ac.uk) stating why your website client is not suitable and what company you wish to use and why.
Please Note: Generic or theoretical answers will result in zero marks for that task.

The Deliverable

The deliverable is a written (business style) report for the management of your website client containing the elements 2 to 6  in the table above. Task 1 will be in the Moodle discussion forum.

The word limit GUIDELINE is 2,000 words +/- 10%. You should divide this between the questions using the % of the question mark as a guide to how much is expected per section.

However, this is only a guide, as marks are allocated for good content, clarity of expression and pertinent facts. If you write 900 words of repetitive or irrelevant information you will not get good marks!

REFERENCING

Every resource you use must be correctly referenced, in accordance with the Harvard guidelines APA 6th ed (UoP policy). If you use a resource and don’t mention it, you are liable to face the UoP disciplinary process on a plagiarism rap; this can result in exclusion from the University.

If your work is significantly similar to another person’s I will have to act in accordance with the University’s regulations. However, talking about this coursework with your friends/study group should not result in your work being identical to theirs.

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Marking Guidance